Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story

Long-winded Swirsky's meandering articles ,make my head hurt

I was recently talking with a young woman with an autistic child. She related that when she was pregnant with him she would get regular sonograms in order to allay her fears about the fetus' development.

An interesting theory, and it would seem to be a reasonable thing to avoid.

I doubt it's Tylenol. I suspect a red herring. It's the immunizations. A child in this country gets something like 70 immunizations by 18. That's obscene.

Doctors get paid more for ordering tests and doing things - not for simply thinking. (full disclosure - I am one). So more tests and more interventions end up being done. Everything has changed o'er the last 50 years and I have reasonable suspicion that short-term safety analyses of all that is done/ordered may well be grossly incorrect. Who suffers? Our children for one. Autism risk has sky-rocketed. We are clearly doing something - or everything - wrong. Medical care providers need to rethink - EVERYTHING.

I sn under4stand U/S if there is medical concern agbout the status of the fetus. Unfortunately it is often just a means to disclosure of its sex.

This is fascinating and I hope that it gets investigated. Sooner rather than later. As to immunizations: To reduce the number of doctor visits, a single injection might contain 5 or 6 vaccinations--all of them weakened forms of a dangerous virus meant to trigger an immune response. In other words, 3 or 4 too many for a single visit. My brother advised his daughters of this and ONE of them would get the vaccinations at a clinic, just a couple shots at a time. No problems. The other daughter got them all at once and had some problems.

Finally, someone has questioned the use of ultra-sounds causing autism. For years,I've been saying that maybe it's the ultra-sounds being one of the main reasons so many children are autistic.. My children were all born before they were given to women as if they were Neo-natal vitamins, so my kids were never at risk.

What if the presence of acetaminophen or other medication-related substances in the blood PREDISPOSES an infant to neurological damage by sonic or thermal bombardment? Can they find populations that use "Tylenol", but do not routinely get ultrasounds... and vice-versa? Here's another thought: can we trace such medical-procedure-related brain damage as is being discussed to an approximate moment in time when the current spate of maladjusted and irrational 20-30 somethings were still in the womb? That is, when mothers, perhaps particularly liberal, affluent and hyper-concerned moms, were starting to go all-in on "special procedures" to constantly check on and "adjust" their birthing progress? Do we have a generation+ of immature neuro-cripples whose brains got cooked by the "Science", leaving them on the fringes of the autism spectrum, in some ways primed like a grenade, and unable to cope with the world the rest of us deal with every day? And, sort of as with the China virus and vaccines... were there people aware of this phenomenon? Just wondering.

Maybe what ought to be studied is why there was no autism in kids prior to 1960 or ADHD or any of the other behavior disorders of today.